Seismic Shifts: Modern Jewish Ideologies and Movements
With Professor William Safran
This four-week class will cover radical new developments in Jewish thought from the 17th through the 20th century.

Thursdays evenings
March 4, 11, 18 & 25
7 pm
At the Boulder JCC
$54 for all four sessions (see below for registering for individual sessions at $15 per person)

“Defiance” (2009)
Directed by Edward Zwick
Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber

In anticipation of Yom HaShoah, Menorah presents the true story of the Bielsky Brothers, and honors the partisans who took refuge in the forests where they fought the Nazis and provided shelter for Jews. Based on the book by Nechma Tec, “Defiance” pays tribute to Jewish resistance, so often neglected in Holocaust films. The stirring film asks if it is possible to keep faith alive in a time when the world seems devoid of humanity and survival becomes a way of life.

Thursday, April 8 Noon $8 for film and lunch

Also showing: Thursday, April 8 7 pm $8 for film and discussion

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) Author Talk with Matt Young
With Author Talk with Matt Young

Matt Young, co-author of Why Evolution Works (with Paul Strode), tackles the most vexing issues in the public’s understanding of biological evolution and earth history. Young and Strode’s new book explains the concept of biological fitness, arguing that evolution, hardly random, is a process of interaction between organisms and the environment. Matt Young is a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the Colorado School of Mines and a retired Physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he was awarded the Department of Commerce Gold Medal and various other honors. Previously, he was on the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Waterloo, and was a Guest Scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He has 5 books in print, including a book on science and religion, and 2 books on evolution and creationism.

04/15/2010 -04/15/2010
7:00 PM
$8.00 at the door

Milton Friedman and the American Economy Today: With CU Economics Professor Martin Boileau and CU Business School Professor Michael Stutzer
With With CU Economics Professor Martin Boileau and CU Business School Professor Michael Stutzer
The late Milton Friedman, who died in 2006, is widely regarded as the most influential economist of the 20th century. The impact of his ideas now and into the future is inestimable. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science in 1988, Friedman was also a statistician, public intellectual, political advisor and writer who became a household name. The panelists will cover the enormous influence of Friedman on the conduct of monetary policy, which is key to what is happening in the economy now, and on Friedman’s impact on broader policy issues, i.e., his general advocacy of creative market solutions for social problems.

Tuesday, April 27
7 pm
$8 at the door

04/27/2010 -04/27/2010
7:00 PM
$8.00 at the door

Me, Myself and Eye: My Favorite pictures: Boulder JCC Annual Community Photography Exhibit
With
Submit up to five of your favorite pictures of yourself: baby pictures, vintage pictures, vacation pictures, pictures with family and friends, portraits and self-portraits, Facebook profile pictures. Please feel free to add any notes, anecdotes or explanations of why you like these photos. Please bring framed prints to the Boulder JCC by March 29. Photo exhibit opening reception is Sunday, May 2, prior to the screening of “Shmelvis.”

05/02/2010 -05/02/2010
7:00 PM

Shmelvis: Searching for the King’s Jewish Roots
With
Directed by Max Wallace

Elvis Presley would be 75 today – but would be still be wearing that Chai around his neck he was wearing when he died? Inspired by a 1998 Wall Street Journal article suggesting that Elvis might be part Jewish, Dan Hartal -- an orthodox Jewish Elvis impersonator -- an eccentric rabbi and a film crew set out to Memphis and Israel to trace his roots. Their antics include lobbying to give the King a proper Jewish burial and planting a tree in his honor in the Holy Land. Their journey takes them to hilarious heights and pathetic lows in their stuffy Winnebago. Find out: Did Elvis put a Jewish star on his mother’s grave? Was he ever a “Shabbos goy?” Did his mother work in the shmatta business and did he grow up in a Jewish neighborhood? Was his maternal great grandmother Jewish?

Admission is $8 at the door. There is no online registration for this event.

05/02/2010 -05/02/2010
7:00 PM

Levana: New Moon Sister Circle
With With Ketriella Goldfeder
“Whoever blesses the new moon in it’s time, invites the presence of G-d - Shekhinah to dwell within...” -Babylonain Talmud, Sanhedrin 42a.

Join in the ancient tradition of Jewish women celebrating the new moon. Each Hebrew month has its own unique qualities and energies that are available for us to use for our personal and spiritual growth. At the Levana New Moon Sister Circle we will
explore those qualities through Hebrew text study, experiential exercises and personal sharing. The Sister Circle is an amazing opportunity for women to deepen their connection to Jewish Spiritual traditions as well as to each other.

Ketriellah Golfeder has a lifelong interest in working with women in group. She is a skilled teacher and facilitator who has been developing women’s New Moon gatherings for over six years. Ketriellah brings her in-depth knowledge of the Jewish calendar and Jewish spiritual traditions as well as her rich life experience to the group. Using the principles of mindfulness, non-violence, unity, organicity and mind/body/spirit wholism, she creates a group learning experience that is accessible, experiential and very enjoyable.

3 Wednesday Evenings

March 17, April 14 and May 12

6:30 - 8 pm

At Aish Kodesh, 1805 Balsam Ave

$10 per session

Co-sponsored by Shalom Family

03/17/2010 -05/12/2010
6:30 PM
$10.00 per session

The Trashing of Margaret Mead
With With Professor Paul Shankman
In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed the anthropologist into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead’s Samoan research, arguing that Mead had been “hoaxed” by Samoans whose innocent lies she took at face value. In The
Trashing of Margaret Mead, Paul Shankman explores the many dimensions of the Mead-Freeman controversy as it developed publicly and as it played out privately, including the personal relationships, professional rivalries, and larger-than-life personalities that drove it.

Paul Shankman, professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and co-founder
of the Program in Jewish Studies, has conducted fieldwork in Samoa periodically since 1966. He has written a number of articles on the Mead-Freeman controversy.

05/13/2010 -05/13/2010
12:00 PM
$8.00 Lunch and Talk